1956-03-15 — Page 4

THOMAS WISEMAN REPORTS FROM HOLLYWOOD

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1956.

Susan Hayward gives me her recipe for marriage

Hollywood, Tuesday, will win the Academy

WATCHED Susan the year.

I would le

posite if she

award used to sell newspapera in the streets of Brooklyn as a child.

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Ironically Hayward as she stood

Then she became Susan Hay- dická Osear

ward and a success, When she professionally cool and

coming into her life 416

he Jess Barker married

จด beautiful under the husband goes out of it.

Miss

£3,000 year. than hot arc-lamps, She Was Hayward would not considering about

Ner Income

murc Was being nominated for An bad exchange.

double his about £9,200. Later the gap widened, Academy award for her per- formance in the film "I'll Cry Tomorrow." Not a tear In Miss Hayward's worldly devilled eves today. She has done all her crying.

+1 am happy." she stitch, referring to her

nomination, well.

And 50 millon people. Informer about her turbulent, far from happy. private life, saw the bright pulle film star smile on their TV screens

The monik

bounced

across

ritual

ak

"I am

She sold:

starving." We asked the waller to bring some chicken sandwiches

CxBS urgently

last she said. "I am free.

His earnings went down. Hiers and shot up. By 1950 she was mak-

AL

ing at least £71,400) a year.

Is Today her weekly pay packet is

all definitely, finally and abuse said to be £1,300, 1 Rec What

WHIL Tinitel The Slates from a studio in Holly- wood

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It is: See that your

husband earns as

much as you do.

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Ike they mean when they saw that

there ኒ'

lutely Anished. stars he having something on your back all this time and now it's no the longer there,"

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Afterwords

party

full

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nominated

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Dominated.

After

the co- thr and

polite

Ballyhoo, the gossip. gratulations malice. Miss Hayward and went to a cool, dark ime and sat

inther-upholstered In

There she said agoli: "I am so happy."

alcove.

But she something

She won

15 Hullywood nothing falls like

SUCCESS.

You ask why she married Jess

She spoke in a vulce like Harker and she says in a voler bück coffee without sugar. "I that has an edge feet as if I have walked out razor's

Then hve with him. af prison." she added. she said: "1 am so hungry. wish the waiter would bring those sandwiches "

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and

Lit like a must have been in

One only seca the qualities one wants to see in someone when one is in love."

"What are the qualities a I informed the waster of Miss husband right to have?" I in- She academically. Hayward's hunger

quest urged him to hurry. "Are you thought carefully and said: "Re-

tenderness,

strength likely to marry again?" I asked labday. to her.

arf an equal income."

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referring wn: else this time: her divorce from Jess Harker. The I had been finally settled previous day when his appeal She had been tumed down. would not have to make over to him any of her property

Nor would she have to pay himu alimony, 1 offered my con- gratulations on the nomination There is n --and the divorcć,

good chance that Miss Hayward

"First n

to cajo. Kong my freedom," she said. "I have And 10 yeurs

of marriage. Marriage should be made more difficul

und divorce much There should be a cum Micr pulsory engagement of one year before anyone can get married,"

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Not dull

"You are going to have a job finding someone with an income equal to yours."

**Nu. There are lots of suc- cessful businessmen," she said. In soap or "Elderly tyevons haker. She something? How dull.

Miss Hayward, born Edythe Marrener, was the daughter of

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"Not the ones I know," sold Miss Hayward,

of her On the middle finger

the most right hand she wore

and blinding dia- magnificent monds I have seen; seven bands and platinum studded with round and oblong stones.

"May I ask if it was a gift?" 1 sald,

to

magni-

"No. I bought it myself." What a terrible thing to have girl buying her to admit own diamonds. It is, of course, one of the consequences of her success that she can afford

far more give herselt ficent gifts than most men could. During most of her marriage it seems she was doing all the giving. Her husband earned comparatively little. There were rows. There were separations.

Top ten

All this time she was never out of the list of the 10 most popular stars at the box office. of a Today she has the look

with highly polished diamond many facels. One that is still sharp enough to cut--but a dia- round with a soft centre,

She hos miscalculated too often

of being to be accused calculating. She struck me 25 being highly intelligent, gilted and blunt; down to earth with- cut being earthy. She is an Jacknowledged glamour girl who does not talk with her hips, but In the normal way. Yel none the lore she has things to say which are worth hearing.

SUSAN HAYWARD In 1' Cry Tomorrow the performance for which she has been nominated for on Academy award. It is her first singing part on the screen.

DON I'D

DIARY

Dearth of

a SALESMAN

A global jaunt for Mr. Dulles

seems to be the

West's

only publicity idea.

of the sort. He has been play ing golf and shooting quoll.

of the expect the virulence attacks upon the President to increase.

для If the State Department has not enough to worry about, it now has the status of Grace Kelly on in hands. New York, Tuesday. to stay home and reappraise Immigration Commissioner F you will allow me American foreign polley instead Joseph Swing has warned the when she marries to be personal, thin of skipping around the worlu, Detress that

Even the Henry Lace publie Prince Rainier III, she must week starts my 20th

tions, which hero-worship the obide by certain nationally year 28 British Eisenhower Administration, are

A

ere lawe. restless nt

bt Anglu

Miss Kelly must not take an newspaperman reporting the getting

American miscalculation, and enth of allegiance in Monaco, American scene.

The New York Times, the most she must not vote in a Monaco The good news is that Britain authoritative newspaper in the election or take part in and the United States have never New World, is openly critical of plebiscite. been cluser,

the U.S. State Department and the British Foreign Ofee.

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When I first came here anti- con- British opinions were spicuous in many newspapers, and politicians, particularly in election year, regularly attacked

Today

there are very few newspapers and very few poll- ticians,

Junate except fringe, that do not stress the neecasity of the strongest tea

Britain with Great

as the United States' best, most loyal

The bat news is that Britain and the United States Bre: đê-

the

monstrating that they haven't the slightest Iden how to sell their case.

Falling down Hamed

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are

the

Bad week

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She must not be naturalised or make a formal renunciation of the U.S. at home or abroad, or leave or re-

main outside the U.S. during a

timo of war от national

Lean time

THIS has been THIS

bad week emergency for Britain and Amerken.

On her passport her name wil! Since the departure of Glubb read "Grace Kelly,

wile

of Pashan

the headlines read: Prince Rainier III." There will Setback to the West. Another be no "Princess" or title, al- biow to British prestige. Black though the State Department day for the British," and the concedes that the Duchess of words are "negligence and in- Windsor's passport reads "Her declaton,

bungling, "Grace." wenkness, blunders, and failure,

Any children that the Princo Here there ly revolt against and the actress may have. can the citizenship of both Mr Dulles's stewardship and acquire his extraordinary optimism and mother and father: if they are snugness &bout his bom in England they can be CYCL policies have dumbfounded his British subjects, U.S. citizens, own party as well as the De- and Monegasques, mocrats.

The feeling is sweeping this Americans.

Britain and the 0.9 high-pressure country that

a new and virtle IT to a lean Um on Broadway for mid-scaSON. Only five salesmen, the masters of the ad U.S. need vertising art, public relations, approach to world problems to

"Pajama

Game," Imaginative Soviet musicals. and promotion, falling down moot the

the job of putting tactics of blandishment and e "Damn Yankees," and "Pipu "Fanny," "Silk Stockings," abjectly on What sort of mistakes?

themselves

thel apd over "I won't answer that."

Washington has been forgotten Dream" are enjoying long runs. country. Apart from being rich in un-

Here

are the British, the most almost before the signatures of Usually the number is around Kittle Inves-

ten Sir specified wisdom,

mercantile Dwight Eisenhower and of all

The tigation reveals that Miss Hay-lustrious

song-and-dance

shows 41.90 has

nine savings nations, renowned for deliver. Anthony Eden are dry. ward

Now that the President has are in the doldrums: and

the goods, not delivering any Investments and to evetih men's hunds made the big decision and his Boris accounta

Karlo, the dis- umounting to some £89,200.

y has

echoed round the tinguished Englishman who got When she married Jess and following.

is not even a Juntor world, the election campaign is typed as a monster because of There

It looks like being his success In "Frankenstein," is Barker, a somewhat cold-blood- ed agreement was drawn Minister of Information or Pro- under way.

up

one of the most bitter and a hit "The Lark." Ho lo separating her income and propagando, let alone on oficial of vitriole of any I have witnessed delighted to have cleaped from

Cabinet rank, in other the perty from his.

British

"In gaining wisdom. Learning not to make the same mistakes again."

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There have been some unfor- tunate stories about you in the said. She lately. I papers

they had been unfor- agreed tunate.

been

my

the

Mr Dulles has flown

licement

American during the

Foster

century.

The Declaration of

past Bfth of a horror roles.

of

the Laurence Olivier- Main More up he says: "I think the experience will be wonderful for both of them,

It has stood up in court.

keeps Hayward

her Government. Mins £10,000 house' and all her olber

The best idea our Frontal assaults capable of is to dispatch Secre

State John of tary Dulles im another global 60000 man usually, has begun a think Marilyn has extraordinary another global jaunt. MR Adlai Stevenson, a gentle particularly for Larry, and. I series of frontal assaults on courage. mites during the three years he what he considers are misstate has been the Secretary of State..

"Marilyn and I have some thing

in common-that blondo He has travelled another 50,000 ments by Mr Eisenhower.

Even the President's friends I saw in "How to Marry miles on journeys within the

think it was unfortunate that Millionaire' could become for United States, and at the

what

Frankenstein moment he is in the middle of Mr Eisenhower should have her another 27,000-mile trip to Asia said in his telecast to the nation monster became for me, and back.

that ho had been fully perform- "She's got to escape as I did. 1ng the duties of the Presidency The transition is painful, but a during the past few weeks.

woman of her natural endow- Everyone knows of course ments should not be pinched in that he has been doing nothing such a trap."

I asked: "Have there many loves in your life?"

Actually only

two children

That is the

most diplomatie answer I have ever heard.

Adding up

There is no, doubt that Miss Hayward is a girl with a will of stainless steel. But even steel is subject to metal fatigue.

on

Incident There was the April 28, 1955, when she was found unconscious in her home suffering from an overdose It sleeping pills.

"You can ask me anything

"bui you like," she said, doesn't mean I'll answer."

"No. I'm

Assets

of

The second-best idea is for the United States to give away another billion dollars or sv.

Growing tired RADUALLY the public hare

are becoming tired of the lack of originality and Imagina- tion In the Anglo-American leadership, I met two leading newspapermen this American week-Richard Clarke, manag

editor of the New

News,

largest the circulating newspaper in the

Miss Hayward throws out | United States, and Jack only one clue to this incident.

Howard tho bass of the She sayer "I am a woman. Scripps Howard newspaper

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chain

Both men are worried by the

and decline

deterioration of America's and Brata's place and prestige in the world,

The Scripps-Howard papers ore saying bluntly that Me Dulles should

There are some people who I suppose you must be pretty might dispute the second half of rich?

the statement. But even if Miss is something of an net nich. Not in Hayward- money? But in other ways

I adding machine she is one with the very feminine falling of am-now."

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The Senor has to call his fiancee ‘Excellency' LOVE AT THE EMBASSY

THE

· By DOROTHY HARRISON

HE telephone rang through the tapestried Mayfair (London) drawing-room of the Costa Rien Legation and brought together the season's most intriguing pair of lovers.

In a flutter, Her Excellency Dona Virginia Prestinary do Gallegos rushed to speak to handsome green-eyed Senor Don Leslie Close, First Secretary of the Uruguayan Embassy.

Theirs is the only romance ever to, blossom in the silff formality of the Court of SL. James,

And fellow diplomats were politely taken aback when news of the engagement leaked out recently.

How goes the

of love in the Embassies? Largely, I gather For Her Excellency, if goca by telephone.

The days of Her Excellency and her, Senor are so crowded with diplomatic duties that he puts through five fixed phonos calls a day to the Costa Rica Legation a couple of miles away.

At 9.30 a.m. he inquires it she has slept well. At 1230. ho wants; to' know how her morning has been. At teatime he taks if she is tired. Before dinner he wishes her "bon appetit." And at midnight he calls to say good night.

"Don't imagine that love and diplomacy go very easily to gether explained the loo-eyed Senora, We can't even have more than two dances together in public”

For this is a romance that must be ruled by strict protocol. Diplomats even those in love-must be impartial to all

.comers.

Bo the burly, adoring Sonor sometimes gets barely a glance from his fiancee.

her

And as he's lower in diplomatic status he must NEVER call

They we did "your Excellency

can't sit together at dinner unless officially placed there. They must even seek permission to wed. So personal letters, have gone off to their respective governments,

"it's a good. job qur countries are so friendly!” she said." Hor velce dropped. And woman to woman--all protocol shed -we talked. Of how she fell for the First Secretary,Na

Anglo-Mexican Society recepton los

It happened at

November.

Suddenly she was

Senor's

was spellbound i

by

a flash of green eyes-the

"He asked me to dance. What a dancor!..

"I don't know whether I fell in love at first. sight, but apy-

how he proposed (several, wooks_lator."!:/

là... With her two sons now'st (school"here-Alfredo - (13) and Jorge (11)the Senora, seven years a widow, came to London last Mays. Opis

Will marriage mean

mean ber, retirement?

Thoses dark eyes glow defiantly) "I shall never

diplomacy, neverk Ke

Maybe, :11. Just as wall Har Excellency's marrying a man who is used to his wife being hossein publie.